| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 páginas
...went to-bed. See the Earl of Northumberland's household-book. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty,3 For want of fighting was grown rusty, 360 And ate...body to hew and hack. The peaceful scabbard where it dwelt, The rancour of its edge had felt : For of the lower end two handful 365 It had devour'd, 'twas... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 páginas
...fight and dinner both. In it he melted lead for bullets, 355 To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets ; To whom he bore so fell a grutch, He ne'er gave quarter t' any such. 1 In which he carry'd as much meat, , As he and and all his knights could eat,] True-wit, in Ben Jonson's... | |
| 1844 - 520 páginas
...fight and dinner both. In it he melted lead for bullets, To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets : To whom he bore so fell a grutch, He ne'er gave quarter...such. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of lighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack. The peaceful scabbard,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...for fight and dinner both ; In it he melted lend for bullets To shoot ut foes, and sometimes pullets, mbers trustv, For want of fighting, ivas grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack • ( tf somebody to... | |
| John Frost - 1845 - 458 páginas
...for fight and dinner both ; In it he melted lead for bullets To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets, To whom he bore so fell a grutch, He ne'er gave quarter to any such. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...for fight and dinner both ; In it he melted lead for bullets To shoot at foes, and sometimes pallete, iew, xviii. 27*. that short period, we shall find And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack : The peaceful scabbard where it dwelt, The... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 páginas
...forswear thin potations, and to addict themselves to sack. Second Part of Henry IV. Act IV. 8c. 7. The trenchant blade, toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of some body to hew and hack. The peaceful scabbard where it dwelt, The... | |
| 1847 - 540 páginas
...SHAKSPEARK. 2. In peace, there 's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility. SHAKSPEARC. 3. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 4. Oh, peace ! thou source... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...for fight and dinner both. In it he melted lead for bullets, To shoot at foes and sometimes pullets To whom he bore so fell a grutch, He ne'er gave quarter...Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of some body to hew and hack. The peaceful scabbard where it dwelt, The... | |
| 1858 - 682 páginas
...church which he had seen — " The Trenchant Blade, Toledo trusty, For want of Fighting was grown rusly, And ate into itself for lack Of some Body to hew and hack." Ibid. p. 32. He had, therefore, set about defending her against all her foes, whether Deists f, or... | |
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